Nowadays, if one preach anything but ceaseless lavations, he is dubbed an apostle of filth; yet Aristotle, the wisest of our race, proclaims that wisdom lies in the mean, and not in the extreme; and Bacon teaches us that we are often the slaves of a word like "filth.
While our critic in her book sets herself the task of discriminating between the truth and error of Christian Science, she admits that she does not understand what Mrs.
I look for the hour when that supreme Beauty, which ravished the souls of those Eastern men, and chiefly of those Hebrews, and through their lips spoke oracles to all time, shall speak in the West also.
There
are many at the present day who are saying, as did Job, "The thing which I greatly feared is come upon me," but few realize that the trouble came because of fear; in other words, lack of trust in God.
Christian Science
does not take up the discussion of the human belief of evil because evil has any valid claim upon mortals' attention, but because this belief asserts a reality opposition to good, and because its falsity must be recognized in order to apprehend the allness of God.
